Tips to get better ?

[Yuuki Yuuki]

Hi,

It's the ifrst Ninja Gaiden I play and like it so far. I'm in Chapter 6 and I'm struggling quite a lot. I take a lot of damage by all the enemies around me and most of the time, I'm lost to what to do...

The dogs are the worst so far but even some normal enemies (or mages with fire balls) can be a challenge :/

Do you have any tips ? Is there something or somewhere I could train myself a bit ?

[secret hunt]

Anytime you are not attacking keep blocking.

[Starkiller]

After a few chapters in the story, the team mission mode unlocks in the main menu. There you can practice a little on the easiest level of difficulty. In addition, in the team missions there is a field at the top right of the screen, if you check the box you will automatically be brought back to life. Practice the Izuna Fall especially with the moon staff.

[J Jonoh Jamson]

Lab the moves and combos, moves list is in the weapons section of the pause menu.

Practice on landing UTs, if orbs floating around, get the air by either jumping or doing an aerial attack that ends in neutral, and then as you're about to land on the ground charge a UT to quickly absorb the orbs.

Some moves have invincibility frames, like dodging, OTs, UTs, guillotine throw, and windmill slash. With the right timing you can negate damage with those i-frames. Like if you get hit with an incendiary shuriken, then do a move with i-frame so that incendiary shuriken explodes just as you're in the i-frame, and you won't take any damage from the explosion.

[Eldriken]

Originally posted by Yuuki Yuuki:

Hi,

It's the ifrst Ninja Gaiden I play and like it so far. I'm in Chapter 6 and I'm struggling quite a lot. I take a lot of damage by all the enemies around me and most of the time, I'm lost to what to do...

The dogs are the worst so far but even some normal enemies (or mages with fire balls) can be a challenge :/

Do you have any tips ? Is there something or somewhere I could train myself a bit ?

I'd advise using shurikens for dogs or just interrupting enemies in general. They do a good job of stopping the dogs in their tracks, interrupting archers and I think it even interrupts the mage ninjas when they're casting.

[void]

Block a lot.
Izuna Drop X, Y, X, X, X , Y with dragon sword is great.
Don't shy away from using items, this isn't DMC where your rank will be affected by doing so.
Dogs you can infinitely loop with the Lunar. Jump, X, X, Y. Repeat.
Wind Blades and Piercing Void are the best Nimpos.
Use Flying Swallow with Dragon Sword on Van Gelfs because Black 2 reduced the damage needed to delimb them.
Use obliteration techniques.
You can release a charged ET (Hold Y) or UT and get i-frames during the animation, and enemies killed by UTs will drop more essence.
Guillotine Throw (X+A) will give you i-frames if you're hit by an incendiary shuriken, the explosion will occur during the throw animation and you won't take damage.
If you hold LT, you won't absorb nearby essence, allowing you to release LT whenever you want to absorb some for a UT with Hold Y.

[Shirakani]

Originally posted by secret hunt:

Anytime you are not attacking keep blocking.

This... ABB = Always Be Blocking.

Never let yourself get surrounded, always try to move so there's a wall or something behind you or at least a lot of open space to move WITHOUT someone immediately behind you.

If barraged by many attacks, always Reverse Wind... do NOT try to counter attack when hammered on by multiple enemies, you have no i-frames when attacking outside of some very specific moves. Reverse Wind on the other hand is completely invincible and the only true get out of dodge move you have on demand.

Learn to 'OLC' aka On Land Charge, it cuts about 4-5 frames out of the charging animation for an Ultimate. Learn to do this from a Reverse Wind into a Jump and bust it as you land... If there is Essence floating around even better, instant Ultimate then.

From there... you should be chaining Ultimates. Hold LT to prevent yourself from absorbing essence until you need it and chain until you clear.

Learn which moves have a high delimb rate as even the most HP spongey enemies turn into one hit kills when they lose a limb.

Abuse the Guillotine Throw where possible if you need offensive i-frames.